Wells, Jonathan

title
Justice
first name
Jonathan
last name
Wells
gender
male
birth, death year
1659, 1739
role
enslaver
race
white
location(s)
Deerfield, MA  

Bio

Jonathan was a military man and was the first justice of the peace for Deerfield, Massachusetts. He, his wife Sarah, and their family and home survived unscathed the 1704 raid on Deerfield by French soldiers with their Indigenous allies. In 1734, Wells had his enslaved man, Pompey, baptized.

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